First off. Heat beat the Bulls! Yeah it wasn't that great of a victory beating them by 4 points without Deng but I find comfort in the fact that the bulls NEVER had the lead in that game. What an awesome way to spend a Sunday.
So I also completely broke the TV thing... I just got a 60" Plasma... what do you expect?
I also have made it through the Old Testament and I haves come to the conclusion that I do not believe in the Old Testament as a whole. I find that it is very rasist, sexist and though it does have some good principles, I simply can't believe that God just simply chose a group of people based on who they were born to and then put them in a situation where these societies would constantly at war with each other over love. God is Love, love does not envy, therefore God cannot be jealous. The concept of a jealous angry vengeful God is something that I can't wrap my head around.
I'm not saying that there aren't good parts of the Old Testament aren't good, and I do believe in intelligent design, but I don't believe that the earth was created in seven days or there was a flood covering the entire earth and that two of every animal survived on a boat for months. Don't get me wrong I do not think it is beyond the power of God to be able to do such things, I just think that such parts of the Bible are men trying to explain that which they could not explain. In short I do not believe that a majority of the Old Testament is divinely inspired.
Song of the Day: "It's OK" by Cee Lo Green
Yesterday I Consumed:
Matthew 15:2-5, 9, 17-20 NKJV
Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. He answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death. But you say, Whoever says to his father or mother, Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.
I've kind of rationalized this passage as another instance of Jesus elimanting the traditions of man and placing more of an importance on a relationship with God than ritualistic behaviors, but at the same time He's telling people not to wash their hands before they eat... and that's nasty. I also find it interesting that He said: "Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man." Does anyone think that implicitly provides an endorsement towards things like say drug use and pornography ... among many other things.
So I also completely broke the TV thing... I just got a 60" Plasma... what do you expect?
I also have made it through the Old Testament and I haves come to the conclusion that I do not believe in the Old Testament as a whole. I find that it is very rasist, sexist and though it does have some good principles, I simply can't believe that God just simply chose a group of people based on who they were born to and then put them in a situation where these societies would constantly at war with each other over love. God is Love, love does not envy, therefore God cannot be jealous. The concept of a jealous angry vengeful God is something that I can't wrap my head around.
I'm not saying that there aren't good parts of the Old Testament aren't good, and I do believe in intelligent design, but I don't believe that the earth was created in seven days or there was a flood covering the entire earth and that two of every animal survived on a boat for months. Don't get me wrong I do not think it is beyond the power of God to be able to do such things, I just think that such parts of the Bible are men trying to explain that which they could not explain. In short I do not believe that a majority of the Old Testament is divinely inspired.
Song of the Day: "It's OK" by Cee Lo Green
Yesterday I Consumed:
- 1/2 a Large Acorn Squash Roasted and Pureed
- 1 Pound Grape Tomatoes Roasted and Pureed
- 6 Cloves Roasted Garlic Pureed
- 2 Cups Coconut Milk
- 1 Naked Reduced Calorie Tropical
- 1 FRS Healthy Protien Blueberry Acai
- Juice of:
- 1/2 Pinapple
- 2 Oranges
- 1/2lb Strawberries
- 3 Handfuls Spinach
- 2 inches Ginger
Matthew 15:2-5, 9, 17-20 NKJV
Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. He answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death. But you say, Whoever says to his father or mother, Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.
I've kind of rationalized this passage as another instance of Jesus elimanting the traditions of man and placing more of an importance on a relationship with God than ritualistic behaviors, but at the same time He's telling people not to wash their hands before they eat... and that's nasty. I also find it interesting that He said: "Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man." Does anyone think that implicitly provides an endorsement towards things like say drug use and pornography ... among many other things.
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